Staff Members

Ms Gaye Poole

Role: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: BA(Hons) English/Theatre Studies, UNSW, MA Hons (Research) Theatre/Film Studies, UNSW; PGCertTT, Waikato. Email: gpoole@waikato.ac.nz Location: I4.12 Contact: +64 7 838 4466 ext. 8273

Research Interests:

Began working life as an actor; stage credits include Butterflies are Free, Equus, The School for Scandal, Hamlet, Jumpers, The Department, A Toast to Melba, Point of Departure (all for Queensland Theatre Company); The Happy Hunter (Marian St Theatre, Sydney); The Cat and the Canary (Old Tote Theatre Company, Sydney); East Lynne (Neutral Bay Music Hall, Sydney) and Bedroom Farce (national tour). Worked for Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane, and Hole in the Wall Theatre, Perth. Television credits include Homicide and The Young Doctors.

Undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of New South Wales. Taught in the Drama Department of Newcastle University and across a range of subjects at the University of New South Wales: in the School of Theatre and Film Studies, the School of English and the Centre for Liberal and General Studies, the Faculty of Professional Studies and the Faculty of Law. International teaching at the University of Lodz, Poland, the University of Turku, Finland, and in Hungary at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, and the University of Debrecen.

Conference appearances include Australasian Drama Studies, Australian Studies, Popular Culture, AULLA, the Progressive Dinner Conference and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Author of Reel Meals, Set Meals: Food in Film and Theatre (Currency Press, 1999). Contributed to the book Screen Scores: Studies in Contemporary Australian Film Music (AFTRS, 1998).

Editor of Australasian Drama Studies Focus Issue 'Teaching Theatre, Performance and Drama studies'(Vol 57, October 2010)

Research Interests: Contemporary English language theatre, especially American Theatre; Australian Theatre; Food and Performance; Adaptations; Theatre/Screen; Film Music; Verbatim theatre; Reminiscence Theatre; Documentary Theatre

Selected Publications:

'Scoring: Sexuality and Australian Film Music, 1990-2003 (co-authored with Bruce Johnson), Reel Tracks: Australian Feature Film Music and Cultural Identities (ed. Rebecca Coyle), (John Libbey/perfect beat publications, 2004) pp97-121.

'Bard Day Afternoon': Looking for Richard, Screen Education, Issue 52, Summer 2008, pp141-147. ISSN 1449-857X

Guest editor, Focus issue, 'Teaching Theatre, Performance and Drama Studies', ADS, Vol 57 October 2010.

Research Publications:

You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Ms Gaye Poole

General Interests:

Gaye is the director of Carving in Ice, a theatre company which stages productions involving both students and community actors.
Gaye has diected the following production for Carving in Ice Cosi by Louis Nowra (New Place Theatre, UoW, 2007) Half Life by John Mighton (Gallagher Concert Chamber, 2007) Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher (Telecom Playhouse, 2008) Attempts on her Life by Martin Crimp (Meteor Theatre, Ignition Fringe Festival, 2009) Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley (Telecom Playhouse, 2009)
Wit by Maragret Edson (Telecom Playhouse, 2010)
In the Next Room or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl (Playhouse, 2011)
Cow and Fold by Jo Randerson (Playhouse, 2012)
Dracula adapted by William McNulty from the Bram Stoker novel (Meteor Theatre, Hamilton, 2012)

Currently Arts Advisor/mentor for 8 Theatre Studies Sir Edmund Hillary Creative and Performing Arts Scholars.

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